Obama administration

Texas on the Potomac is pleased to introduce you to our new weekly feature, Driving the Debate. Each week, we will look at a widely used #hashtag and examine which people, media outlets or pundits are driving the social media debate on the issue. In previous installments we took a closer look at#immigration, #guncontrol, #KeystoneXL […]
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TexMessage Monday, May 20 Good morning, TexMessagers! How many times do you think Abbott sued the federal government? TEXclusive Some just talk the talk about their dissatisfaction with the government, but Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott walks the walk…all the way to the courtroom. Last month Abbott told a tea party group at a FreedomWorks event in […]
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The Houston Chronicle last week hosted op-ed articles on the subject of guns from Vice President Joe Biden and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. We offer you both columns without commentary. But please let us know what you think of their articles — and the issues of Second Amendment rights and gun control in general. By […]
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This interview with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is an online extra to accompany the story about Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio that appears as premium content on HoustonChronicle.com. For full access to all of our political coverage, please subscribe to HoustonChronicle.com. Texas on the Potomac’s Rick Dunham interviewed Ted Cruz. You can follow Rick […]
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There is rarely a kind word spoken about President Obama by Texas congressional Republicans — or about Texas Republicans (we mean you, too, Rick Perry) by the Obama administration. But on the eve of President Obama’s trip to Mexico City to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, the top White House domestic policy official […]
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The Obama administration won’t forget about the people of West as the small Central Texas town rebuilds from the fertilizer plant explosion that killed at least 15 people, presidential press secretary Jay Carney said this afternoon. “The people of West, Texas, suffered enormously last week and continue to suffer from this tragic explosion that has […]
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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says he won’t back down. Nearly nine in ten Americans favor expanding background checks for gun buyers. And two historically pro-gun senators reached a bipartisan agreement this morning to do just that — while preserving exceptions for family gun transfers and personal sales. But the Republican from Houston, who has led […]
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Texas on the Potomac frequently shares some of the best national political content from the Texas Tribune. Here’s a scoop from the Trib’s resident superstar, Emily Ramshaw. Gov. Rick Perry and Texas’ two U.S. senators will join forces at the state Capitol on Monday to reassert their opposition to expanding Medicaid, a central tenet of […]
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A congressional committee held a contentious two-hour hearing today to tackle one of the most pressing issues facing American veterans — the persistent backlog in vets’ claims that are awaiting a decision. Currently, there are nearly 900,000 pending claims of more than 125 days. The problem has existed throughout the decade of war in Afghanistan […]
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Houston Rep. John Culberson, who has long advocated for the nation’s space program, today presented his vision for the future of NASA — and it includes big changes in management of the space agency. Culberson and Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., on Wednesday told members of the House Subcommittee on Space that NASA needs to be […]
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